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Re: macos sierra

Posted by ctrueden on Oct 10, 2016; 7:34pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/macos-sierra-tp5017325p5017342.html

Hi Aryeh,

> Has anyone on list running FIji upgraded to macos sierra? If so, what
> (if any) problems were encountered?

I upgraded to Sierra as soon as was released, expecting something or other
to go wrong with ImageJ because of it. I was pleasantly surprised that it
all seems fine.

Actually, I think Apple fixed at least one memory leak:
http://forum.imagej.net/t/memory-not-clearing-over-time/2137/15?u=ctrueden

However, it does not fix everything -- the horrible Mac speed issues are
not resolved:
http://forum.imagej.net/t/mac-java-speed-issues/304

Fortunately, Wayne's workaround of not setting the menu bar on new windows
avoids the worst of it, for the time being.

> I downloaded a fresh copy of Fiji, and it worked correctly. I did not
> want to replace my installation, so I found that if I replaced the
> Contents directory  ( Fiji.app/Contents ), it solved the problem.

That is certainly safe and reasonable. It is not supposed to be necessary
-- the ImageJ Updater is supposed to update the launcher in the Contents
folder -- but perhaps it did not for some reason. See also
http://imagej.net/Frequently_Asked_Questions#How_can_I_verify_that_my_ImageJ_is_really_100.25_up_to_date.3F

> the bigger hassle will be macports, where some ports are not yet
> working in sierra.

Have you tried Homebrew (http://brew.sh/)? I like it better than MacPorts
and all seems to be working for me on Sierra so far.

Regards,
Curtis

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On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 4:40 AM, Aryeh Weiss <[hidden email]> wrote:

> On 09/10/2016 22:11, James Harris wrote:
>
>> Hello Aryeh,
>>
>> I run Fiji on an iMac running macOS sierra, and only had one problem.
>> After updating to sierra I tried to run Fiji from its desktop icon and kept
>> getting the message that I had to install Java, which was already on my
>> system. So I went to the oracle site downloaded jre-8u101-macosx-x64.dmg,
>> and ran it. But still got the same error message until I tried executing
>> Fiji directly from my applications folder this worked, so I copied the Fiji
>> app from this folder to my desktop, and it runs perfectly.. Since then I
>> have not encountered any problems.
>>
>> Jim.
>>
>> Thanks for this information. I also encountered this problem, and running
> Fiji from the Applications folder did not help. Running the ImageJ-macosx
> file from Contents/MacOS did work, but this is not how I wanted to run it.
>
> I downloaded a fresh copy of Fiji, and it worked correctly. I did not want
> to replace my installation, so I found that if I replaced the Contents
> directory  ( Fiji.app/Contents ), it solved the problem. Someone who knows
> the MacOS launcher better than I might be able to explain this, and suggest
> a more elegant fix.
> I did not proceed to replace the individual files, so I do not know if
> info.plist or ImageJ-macosx (or both) are responsible.
>
> --aryeh
>
>
>
>> On 9 Oct 2016, at 17:57, Aryeh Weiss <[hidden email] <mailto:
>>> [hidden email]>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Has anyone on list running FIji upgraded to macos sierra? If so, what
>>> (if any) problems were encountered?
>>>
>>> --aryeh
>>>
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>>
>
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